The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Anglo Saxon institution. Subdivision of a shire. Theoretically equals one hundred hides but hardly ever. Generally has their own court which meets monthly to handle civil and criminal law. In Danish is called a wapentakes (weapons taking?). (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms) Subdivision of the shire based on groups of estates adding up to 100 hides: probably artifically imposed in Midlands 900-939, but in the south based on older units. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 214) An administrative sub-division of the shire, embracing several vills, and having a court to which men of the hundred owed suit at regular intervals. (Warren, W.L. Henry II, 635) Related terms: Hide
A district within a shire, whose assembly of notables and village representatives usually met about once a month Hundredum
a subdivision of a county, a number of parishes grouped together
Subdivision of an English shire or a French county, each hundred had their own court.
administrative unit deriving from 100 'tithings'
the major subdivision of a shire or county in most of England.
originally came into use under the Saxon organization of England, with each county or shire comprised of an indefinite number of hundreds (civil administrative regions), each hundred containing at least ten tithings, or groups of ten families of freeholders or frankpledges. In the north of England, the word is used.
An Anglo Saxon institution, the subdivision of a Shire. Theoretically equals one hundred hides but this hardly ever applies. Generally it has its own court which meets monthly to handle civil and criminal law. In Danish it is called a Wapentake (weapons taking?).
being ten more than ninety
a geographical unit smaller than a county containing ten tithings, i
an English division of the shire
an old English subdivision of a county, its origin shrouded in mystery
a tax and representation district in New Castle County
a unit of fiscal assessment and local government outside the DANELAW, originally containing 100 HIDEs, intermediate between the county and the MANOR, roughly equivalent in size to the modern District; cantrefi in Wales
Adminstrative division of an English shire (county).
Ancient division of a county in England and Ireland
Hundredum Large administrative subdivision of land, each having its own representative body from local villages. Domesday commissioners collected information from these assemblies for the Domesday survey. In Danelaw counties the equivalent was the wapentake.
A number of townships, usually from 100 to 120, grouped together formed a Hundred. The Township of Boulton was within the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch. See also Shire and Township.
A division of a county. A half hundred was sometimes a smaller division, as with Hitchin in Hertfordshire. See also Wapentake.
part of a county. A piece of land that was 100 hides in size. This was called a wapentake in the northern counties.
In England, the subdivision of a county or shire, with its own assembly of notables and village representatives.
An administrative sub-division of a county. Wallington Hundred extended from Cheam in the west to Addington in the east, and from Mitcham in the north to Chaldon in the south.
A district or area of a county.
In medieval England, a group of 100 families who were responsible for maintaining the order and trying minor offenses.
A hundred is a geographic division used in England, Scandinavia, South Australia and some parts of the USA, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative units. Alternative names include "Wapentake", "Herred" and "Härad".
